Salvator Mundi

16th century

Giampetrino Italian

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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Title Salvator Mundi

Artwork Date 16th century

Artist Giampetrino

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Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Paint on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 25 3/4 × 19 inches (65.4 × 48.3 cm) Framed: 35 1/2 × 28 3/4 × 2 7/8 inches (90.2 × 73 × 7.3 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of James E. Scripps

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 89.21

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Provenance

John Parke [-1821] (London, England);
June 16, 1821, auctioned (withdrawn) by John Parke at (Christie's, London, England), lot 63;
May 7, 1836, auctioned by son of John Parke at (Christie's, London, England), lot 47;
April 6, 1889, auctioned by Mrs. Cox at (Christie's, London, England), lot 134;
April 6, 1889, purchased by Dearn, on behalf James Scripps [1835-1906] (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1889, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Catalogue of the Genuine and Highly Valuable Cabinet of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch Pictures, of a Well-Known Amateur, Mr. Parke. Sales cat., Christie's. London, June 16, 1821, p. 7, no. 63 [as by Leonard da Vinci].

Catalogue of Dutch & Flemish Pictures and a Few Modern Pictures, the Property of Major Corbett-Winder; A Small Collection of Ancient and Modern Pictures of T.S. Starkey, Esq., of Huttons Ambo, York; and others from Different Private Collections. Sales cat., Christie, Manson & Woods. London, April 6, 1889, p. 17, no. 134 [annotated, "62"].

Scripps, James E., ed. Catalogue of the Scripps Collection of Old Masters. Detroit, 1889, pp. 15–16, no. 10 [as by Leonardo da Vinci (attributed to)].

"The Scripps Old Masters." The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152; p. 150 [as attributed to Leonardo da Vinci].

Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, pp. 10-11 [as attributed to Leonardo DaVinci].

Berenson, Bernard. North Italian Masters of the Renaissance. New York, 1907, p. 274 [as by Marco D'Oggione].

Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1910, p. 17, no. 11 [as by Leonardo da Vinci (attributed to)].

Burroughs, C. Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 35, no. 23 [as by Giampietrino].

Suida, Wilhelm. Leonardo und sein Kreis. Munich, 1929, p. 293 [as by Marco D'Oggione].

Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 229 [as "The Savior" by Gianpietrino].

Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings, The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1944, p. 53, no. 543 [as by Giampetrino].

Leonard da Vinci. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum. Los Angeles, 1949, pp. 85–86, no. 27, (pl. 27) [as by Salai (?)].

Heydenreich, Ludwig. Leonardo da Vinci, vol. 1. New York, 1954, p. 203; English ed., 1954, p. 184 [as by Unknown Copyist, dated ca. 1500/1506].

Huyghe, Rene. Art and the Spirit of Man. New York, 1962, pp. 224–225 [as by Giampetrino].

Heydenreich, Ludwig H. "Leonardo's Salvator Mundi." Raccolta Vinciana 20 (1964): pp. 83–109; p. 97 (ill.) [as an accurate early copy of Leonardo's original composition].

Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Check List of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 45.

Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972, p. 180 [as by Andrea Salai].

Snow-Smith, Joanne. "The Salvator Mundi of Leonardo da Vinci." Arte Lombarda, no. 50 (1978): pp. 69–81; pp. 69, 73 (ill.) [as by Giampetrino].

Vezzosi, Alessandro. La Raccolta Leonardesca della Contessa de Béhague. Exh. cat., Castello dei Conti Guidi. Vinci, 1980, pp. 26 (ill.), 28.

Snow-Smith, Joanne. The Salvator Mundi of Leonardo da Vinci. Seattle, 1982, pp. 11, 15 (ill.) [dated ca. 1511].

Trutty-Coohill, Patricia. "Studies in the School Of Leonardo Da Vinci: Paintings in Public Collections in the United States With A Chronology Of the Activity Of Leonardo And His Pupils And Catalogue Of Auction Sales." Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University, 1982, pp. 144–157 [unpublished].

Zeri, Federico, and Francesco Rossi. La Raccolta Morelli: nell'Accademia Carrara. Milan, 1986, p. 187, no. 68.

Sedini, Domenico. Marco d'Oggino: tradizione e rinnovamento in Lombardia tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento. Milan, 1989, pp. 196–197, no. 102 (ill.) [included in section "Opere Espunte [Excluded Works]"].

Fagnart, Laure. Léonard de Vinci en France: Collections et Collectionneurs (XVème–XVIIIème siècles). Rome, 2009, pp. 77, 133 (ill.) [as by attributed to Giampietrino].

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